State v. Doucette

DELAHANTY, Justice.

After a jury trial in Superior Court, Cumberland County, the defendant was convicted of forcibly raping a deaf seventeen-year-old female and was sentenced to a term of twelve years in Maine State Prison. 17-A M.R.S.A. § 252(1)(B)(1). On appeal, Dou-cette alleges four principal assignments of error:

I)the presiding Justice’s summary rejection of the defendant’s mid-trial offer to change his plea to guilty;

II)the appointment of an interpreter who, the defendant claims, was biased against him;

III) the failure to supply the defendant with his own interpreter; and

IV) the denial…